Dispute resolution encompasses the art and skill of resolving conflicts outside traditional courtroom litigation to provide more efficient, cost-effective, and relationship-preserving solutions. Suffolk Law's top-20 program offers a blend of personalized skill development and forward-thinking approaches:
Mastery Through Practice
Students develop sophisticated negotiation techniques through innovative simulation courses, role-plays, pioneering AI negotiation tools, and strategic exercises.
Industry Partnerships
The program's exclusive collaboration with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) provides early access to dispute resolution innovations that are driving change in the field.
High-Impact Dispute Resolution Innovations
Digital Dealmakers: Negotiating with an Expert Bot
Suffolk Law has launched an innovative online platform that allows students to practice their negotiation skills with AI bots that talk back. The AI negotiators aren’t so much confrontational as well prepared and strategic. Such tools are transforming how attorneys and students prepare for and approach dispute resolution. The tool’s AI negotiators employ a variety of tactics and strategies used by experienced lawyers. Read about our AI bot negotiation tool in The Boston Globe.
Using AI to Drive Access to Justice: American Arbitration Association (AAA)-Suffolk Law Partnership
Suffolk Law students and AAA experts are working with court administrators, legal aid providers, and the public to create a suite of smart digital tools to guide self-represented litigants, step by step, through the complexities of low-conflict divorces and family disputes. Their work, through the AAA/Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Innovation Clinic, is critical for litigants and the courts. Find out more.
Suffolk Law-ABA: ADR Teaching Center Project
Suffolk Law and the ABA Dispute Resolution Section have collaborated for over 10 years to create an extensive library of ADR teaching videos that are widely used by law school faculty across the country to teach dispute resolution methods including negotiation, mediation, client counseling, and mixed ADR processes.